Montreal: Super Bon Experiment! RESULTS

!This post contains the results of an experiment proposed in an earlier post!

After a careful clinical trial in our specially equipped laboratory, we have reached some interesting and surprising conclusions. (Humor me while I speak in 3rd person, it makes me feel like there are more than one of me here eating chocolate-covered cherries (CCC), which makes me feel less pitiful.)

Our 4th runner up is...



Lowney (Hershey's) Cherry Blossom. Though big in size, she tries to do too much in one package. The chocolate contains roasted peanuts and coconut, which is simply uncalled-for in a CCC. Also, the inside sauce had a blob of that vulgar, white icing-sugar stuff that comprises the inside of a Cadbury Egg. It's a waste of space that could have been filled by like 4 cherries. The cherry itself... a nice red color but pretty standard.

Our 3rd runner up is...



Nielson Cerises. The bottom disc of the chocolate dome popped off soon as we took a bite which was an unwelcome reminder of the "how do they get the cherry inside the chocolate" manufacturing process. However, the chocolate was pretty good for milk chocolate. The cherry sauce was surprisingly clear in colour and not as viscous as Blossom's. The cherry itself... if you can believe it... was quite salty!

Our surprising 2rd runner up, coming in strong with no packaging to depend on...



Brown Paper Bag from the bulk store! The chocolate was a little waxy and not as good as Cerises, but she gained a lot of ground in the cherry department. The cherry sauce was quite red, had a nice viscosity, and tasted VERY cherry-ish. The most cherry-ish of all those tested so far. Yes, it is an utterly and completely artificial cherry flavor, but shit, people, we LIKE artificial cherry flavor! Sue us!

Our 1st runner up is...



Hernois Patisserie " Traditional". This is the one we had pegged to win. The chocolate was dark and delicious. The bottom surface was dipped in chocolate sprinkles, which in the end, was a bad idea because the chocolate sprinkles were not as high quality as the chocolate. Maybe they were structural support. We were shocked and saddened to find, in such a fancy CCC, a blob of that tasteless white icing sugar stuff taking up space (and therefore grudgingly apologize to Blossom for calling her vulgar). But it probably had to be there because the cherry was so SMALL! And when we bit into it... Yo! What the... a pit! In fact, it was all pit with just a little layer of cherry flesh. Thank god we are scientists and dissect everything carefully or we would have broken a tooth for sure. What saved this CCC (and why she is 1st runner up) is 1) the high quality chocolate and 2) the cherry sauce: definitely alcoholic and delicious. Note the lack of artificial color, which can only be expected in fine chocolates.

And the winner of da Bomb Bomb experiment is...



Patisserie Harnios "Cognac." Lord have mercy, look at the size of that cognac-engorged cherry! It practically takes up the entire cavern! And the cherry sauce (and I do mean SAUCE) is a delicious liquor which we suppose is cognac because that's what Harnois told us. The chocolate was very dark and delicious and we would definitely buy this one again...

If we still had a taste for chocolate-covered cherries...

Which,... guess what... WE DO NOT!

Join us next craving as we discover which salty snacks offer the best crunch for the buck or which cereal tastes most like cookies or perhaps which chocolate croissant is actually worth 4 hours on the treadmill.